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QPR ditch De Canio for Dowie

So much for managerial stability: QPR have replaced manager Luigi De Canio with Iain Dowie. I'm not happy. First of all, Dowie is surely among the ugliest men ever to play football, and just think how hard that is to achieve. Granted, Carlos Tevez has ...

From JAMES HIGGS, The Telegraph,  15 May 2008
Related Topics: Iain Dowie,  Steve McClaren,  Sam Allardyce

In defence of Thomas Mann

Even armed with a good translation or, if you're lucky enough to be able to read German, the original, you still need plenty of discipline to complete a Mann novel. Milan Kundera, in an essay on Carlos Fuentes' Terra Nostra, describes Mann as 'setting ...

From JAMES HIGGS, The Telegraph,  14 May 2008
Related Topics: Thomas Mann,  Carlos Fuentes,  Richard Strauss,  Arnold Schoenberg,  Alban Berg

J.G. Farrell and the Booker of Bookers

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Booker Prize. Debate the value of literary gongs all you like, but you can't deny that there have been some great books chosen as winners in that time. J.G. Farrell deserves the gong of gongs To celebrate the ...

From JAMES HIGGS, The Telegraph,  13 May 2008
Related Topics: Salman Rushdie,  J. M. Coetzee,  Kazuo Ishiguro

Changes are vital for QPR

Sunday, QPR fans were told, marked the start of a new era at Loftus Road. There were rumours before the game that World Cup headbutt legend Zinedine Zidane would be unveiled as the club's new manager. The new logo is OK, I suppose, at least it's better ...

From JAMES HIGGS, The Telegraph,  7 May 2008
Related Topics: Zinedine Zidane

My Player of the Year

As a season ticket holder at QPR, I have a vote in the Player of the Year poll. Outstanding: Rowlands gets a vote for Player of the Year It's a tricky one this year because we've effectively had two different teams; since early January there have been ...

From JAMES HIGGS, The Telegraph,  28 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Rowan Vine (footballer),  Mikele Leigertwood (footballer)

The Hoops are safe

The possibility of QPR being relegated has gone now, as has that of a playoff place. The all-action draw at Wolves on Saturday was, apparently, 'a great advert for the Championship', even if it did condemn us to another season of it. Briatore with his ...

From JAMES HIGGS, The Telegraph,  26 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Naomi Campbell

Flavio Briatore is in love again

Flavio Briatore started out his QPR regime as a pragmatist, insisting that he was buying the club not for love, but as a business venture. But there are tell-tale signs that he's been bitten by the QPR bug. According to Lofty, Flavio Briatore phoned ...

From JAMES HIGGS, The Telegraph,  17 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Renault

Ainsworth signs on for more at QPR

Favourite player: Ainsworth is fully committed to QPR When he's not picked, he never moans about it; he just steps up his training to get back into the side. When he is picked, he's fully committed to his own game and to motivating the rest of the team. ...

From JAMES HIGGS, The Telegraph,  13 Mar 2008

The perils of prediction for QPR

I promised that I'd share my brother's and . High expectations: QPR should gain some points against Blackpool At the time of writing, QPR are 12 points behind our predictions. By this stage, we thought they would have 57 points, whereas they actually ...

From JAMES HIGGS, The Telegraph,  11 Mar 2008

Ebbsfleet on course for Wembley

Up the Fleet: fans arrived thick and fast at Stonebridge Road Stonebridge Road is a proper old-fashioned football ground: three sheds, one of them standing only, and one open stand (for the away supporters, naturally). This was the biggest attendance ...

From JAMES HIGGS, The Telegraph,  10 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Ian Holloway,  Stacy Long,  Paul McCarthy

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